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Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune. L'Estrange.

ent or alienation. Brande. Burrill. Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy. Shak.

To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk. L'Estrange.

ir idols. Jer. 1. 88. And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. Acts xxvi. 11.

o a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. L'Estrange.

- To make sternway, to move with the stern foremost; to go or drift backward. -- To make strange, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if surprised; to treat as strange; as, to make strange of a request or suggestion. -- To make suit to, to endeavor to gain the favor of; to court. -- To make sure. See under Sure. -…

To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side. [Obs.] That was in a strange land Which marcheth upon Chimerie. Gower. To march with, to have the same boundary for a greater or less distance; -- said of an estate.

In a marvelous manner; wonderfully; strangely.

The quality or state of being marvelous; wonderfulness; strangeness.

ss in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin. L'Estrange.

ty; portion; space; -- often indefinite. Away he goes, . . . a matter of seven miles. L' Estrange. I have thoughts to tarry a small matter. Congreve. No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before. Mi lton.

Nauseous. [Obs.] L' Estrange.

he traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal. What strange fish Hath made his meal on thee Shak.

nthropies." Tennyson. She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. L'Estrange. -- Meal"y-mouth`ness, n.

Middle place or degree; mean. The just medium . . . lies between pride and abjection. L'Estrange.

ot a citizen. Mitford. The whole force of Athens, metics as well as citizens, and all the strangers who were then in the city. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Wrongly taught; as, a mistaught youth. L'Estrange.

ion; warning. Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive. L'Estrange.

Marvelous; strange. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.